# "You're the only one that still quotes lines from Bugs Bunny" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 30, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348 "2008-10-30T23:26:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Thunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@Thunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thunder)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/201 "2008-11-10T02:56:11Z")
I’m not sure which one it came from, but the quote that always gets used by me is… “I LOVE YOU, HORTENSE!” ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/202 "2008-11-10T14:53:30Z")
> [@Hail\_Ants](#): > > Did he ever actually say this in a regular cartoon? I only remember it from Roger Rabbit (and it wasn’t Mel Blanc doing Sam in that). Like you, I only remember it from _Who Framed Roger Rabbit?_ > [@Buck\_The\_Diver](#): > > When I visit my Dad up Nawth, the first words I say to him are “I gotta burn muh boots! They touched Yankee soil!”. I keep wanting to use this line when I visit my brother, but I keep forgetting. I’ll try again at Christmas-time this years. > [@IdahoMauleMan](#): > > I’ve been using the “Isn’t that innnnnnteresting?” line (from the Monster-in-the-Castle episode) with my 10-year old daughter for years. She and I just saw the cartoon for the first time together a few months ago. Now she knows where it comes from, and hasn’t stopped using it since. > > And so it goes. From father to daughter. Aren’t traditions grand? RR ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/203 "2008-11-10T15:03:29Z")
“Deep down, aren’t they all witches?” ---
**Author:** ![electricmike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c0e974/32.png) [@electricmike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electricmike)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/204 "2008-11-15T08:34:30Z")
Bugs (pulling on collar and gulping) : “Pardon me doc, but did you say - stuffed?” Dept. store manager(sharpening a huge knife on a stone wheel): “That’s right little chum - stuffed!” “Consequenses schmonesquenses, as long as I’m rich!” “It’s Cottontail Smith - and he’s gone plumb loco!” “I hate rabbits, the only thing I hate more than a rabbit - is two rabbits” “You remind my of Paul!” “Paul?” "My pet tar-ranch-illa! “You’re not gonna believe this, but I just saw a genie with light brown hair being chased by a flying sorceress!” “Oooooww, you buck toothed barnacle- now I’m gonna blast ya!” "This calls for a little Stra-jet-y ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/205 "2008-11-15T17:20:46Z")
> [@electricmike](#): > > "This calls for a little Stra-jet-y That one still caused me trouble. I can never remember if the real pronunciation is stragety or strategy. Grr. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/206 "2008-11-15T19:57:40Z")
I’m pretty sure it’s not “strategery.” ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/207 "2008-11-15T20:05:08Z")
“Let’s do that backwards, In reverse order!” “It’s just like dejavu, all over again!” ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/208 "2008-11-15T22:19:29Z")
> [@kapntoad](#): > > Really? I’ve wondered for years where that comes from. Can you give me the context and calm my turbulent mind? Sorry for the delay, but here ya go, about 2:35 ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gqs-HknT_BY/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/gqs-HknT_BY?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![mboysel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/49beb7/32.png) [@mboysel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mboysel)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/209 "2010-06-23T21:58:07Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > So sayeth Mrs. Morbo. This after I told her “Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin.” And then had to explain what I was quoting. Which happens alot. > > Anywho, here’s a partial list of Bugs Bunny quotes (or Looney Tunes in general) that I still use…when the situation calls for them. > > “Abra Ca-pocus. Hocus-Cadabra” > “What’s a matter cuddles? Did your toy break?” > “Unga Bunga Bunga Inga Binga Bunga Bunga.” > “One. Two. Three strikes you’re out.” > “Oh Bwoomhildaaaaa you’re so wuvewy…” > “Roota. Zoota. Soot!” > “THAAAAAA CRUSHAA!” > “Rabbit’s a good luck! Aatsamatterforyou?” > (French accent) “Oh, he does that all the time. They say when he gets near gold, a funny feeling comes over him.” > “Leopold!” (At every symphony. She’s learned to grab my arm before I can get it out). > “What a gulli-bull. What a nin-cowpoop.” > “I think monsters are the most innnnnnteresting people, don’t you?” > Please add your own so that I can print this out and show it to her as proof that I am not in fact the only one. “I don’t know why an INTERESTING person can’t have an INTERESTING hairdo!” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/210 "2010-06-23T22:00:59Z")
Just this week, somebody told me they were going to a golf lesson. I asked if they didn’t get tired runnin’ them 18 bases. ---
**Author:** ![KennerTheGreat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a8b319/32.png) [@KennerTheGreat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KennerTheGreat)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/211 "2010-06-23T23:14:58Z")
Bugs, imitating Theodore Roosevelt: “I speak softly, but I carry a biiiiggggg stick!” Yosemite Sam: Oh yeah? Well I speak LOUDLY! And I carry a BIIIIGGGGER stick! And I use it, too!" (whack) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/212 "2010-06-23T23:20:50Z")
“Be vewwy quiet. I’m hunting zombies.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2010, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/youre-the-only-one-that-still-quotes-lines-from-bugs-bunny/470348/213 "2010-06-23T23:26:23Z")
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